hi all Bit of a long shot, has anyone got a left hand rear wheel arch or can anyone make a template of the outer side , the side that mates up to the outer panel . Cheers Steve
You mean tub. Tub is the inner bit the tyre throws water at, arch is the pretty layer on the outside. Another wheel arch repair panel is quite a good start for repairing the outer side of the tub.
I was hoping the clarification would help your thread along, no criticism intended. I'm only too familiar with what you described - new outer arch skin, rust cut away from the inner layer (outer part of the tub) and...just left open like that, no repair - squirt black stuff everywhere and hope nobody notices. Think of the time saved as you make and fit the complicated repair pieces. The price of producing a shiny bus doing it properly is many times more than cutting the corners and that's why one finds this sort of thing under one's shiny outer skin...and this favourite...note the new exterior panels. Someone nudged the back of it and it fell to pieces, the entire rest of the bus was done thoroughly, but this area completely ignored. And there is a lesson here. When the insurance assessor saw it, his reaction was that if it had been sound, the claim would only have been for a new bumper cost over the excess and he had a point! Luckily he saw it before I tore parts off and it was hanging together with cunningly made patches on the chassis and other parts, stuck on with convincing weld style silicon beads. I managed to convince him that the owner could hardly be blamed for not spotting this, the rest of the bus being sound and he agreed ... mainly because he'd just been laid off after 30 years and thought he'd leave with a bang. That was luck on our part, I think normally you'd be footing the bill and the insurance would chip in £50.
Trouble is you end up with a very tight double skin that’s virtually impossible to get any paint or wax oil into, the original had a seam seal about 2” up from the lip hence the speed of rot on the arch lip! I can see the thinking in cuttin the lip off the tub and sealing it well.
thats why the waxoyl bungs are between that seal and the lip , the upper is waxoyled from inside the van
To Zedders I realised ,only after you pointed it out that my original post was pretty poor . I had failed to describe accurately the part I was looking for. No offence was taken or intended Cheers
